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03 Nov 2026 15:38:35
When ever is the right time to blood youth, i dunno. But given our offensive struggles would it not make sense to bring players like Njinko and Mills into the first team squad scenario. Not saying play them straight away, just begin the transition by giving them matchday experience, otherwise what is the point cultivating young talent? They have to be introduced at some point to develop surely?

03 Nov 2026 15:57:58
Our academy is a waste of space while Farke is in charge.

03 Nov 2026 17:29:18
Yeah JB, he professes to be youth positive, but i am yet to see the evidence! Yet our youth set up is held as an example? I think DF is very loathe to take a risk ehich makes no sense at all, the benefits of producing our very own talent at minimal cost could be huge, just do it! If they never get a chance they will leave and others will think, whats the point, dont go there!

03 Nov 2026 12:31:20
You never know Harland may sign for us in January for 60 million end all out problems .

03 Nov 2026 14:06:34
Haaland is the better striker.

03 Nov 2026 10:09:33
Before we bought Trafford we were linked with Suzuki, who on Saturday gave away a goal to Fulham against Villa, and Hornicek, who last night gave one away to Everton against Newcastle. Whoever we chose the risk was there.

03 Nov 2026 15:58:52
I'm pretty sure we got the best out of the 3.

03 Nov 2026 17:39:26
i think it goes suzuki, trafford, hornicek.

Im a huge trafford advocate but, dropping the cross aside, I've been massively impressed with Suzuki at Villa. He's a clear upgrade on what Martinez gave them the past two years. He was the main reason they got the win vs. Spurs earlier, and made a truly world class save earlier in the Fulham game.

Trafford is better than hornicek, who himself looks promising if a little more raw than Trafford for me.

02 Nov 2026 22:24:04
We'd all love another striker but the reality is, you look at the strikers or forwards that have moved around the Prem recently and there's been a few really expensive duds.

Marmoush (loan, £60m obligation) Slow start but signs he's warming up.

Fernandez-Pardo (£50m), early days, yet to score, but he definitely hasn't found his feet yet.

Jackson (£45m) big success. But the reality is we couldn't compete at that price.

Delap (£40m) 1 goal from all his starts. An expensive dud so far. Good finish vs Villa. Some sitters including Palace.

Larsen (£43m+) from Jan. Four league goals from 21 isnt good enough. We did well to avoid.

Gonzalo Garcia (£30m+) Just the one league goal for another expensive price.

Flemming (£17m+) Early days as he's behind Emersonn but stuck away two important pens already. Arguably one we might have stretched to (but we don't know the finances).

Callum Wilson (free) would have fit the bill admittedly as backup option.

Awoniyi (£7m) Another good price but I dont think he looks the same player as at Forest after a bad injury and he's had discipline issues this year.

Guiu (£12m) left Chelsea hasn't really played so not sure.

There's ofc more Lankshear (£20m, but a risk with no prem history, hard to predict the tear he's gone on) Troy Parrot similar. Promise David at Brighton hasn't started too well either.

Worth noting we did sign one forward in the summer, very much a prospect in Ditmir Hodja, but he isn't expected to feature this year at 18yrs. But they are looking at it.

03 Nov 2026 07:13:56
Great post again, Ealing, and defo some big duds that we dodged potential bullets on.
From a current form perspective tho, we still wouldn't be banging the goals irrespective of who we bought as back up to DCL, because we just ain't creating sufficient clear cut chances.
I agree with Devon's opening statement below, that our MF is looking stale (right now) .


I'd defo be looking to add someone for the middle of the park in Jan, who can do the dirty work as well as pick a pass thro lines. Caveat to that being I'm not ruling out returns to form for those guys currently in the middle.

03 Nov 2026 08:36:15
Fair dos but slightly worry that we put bid in for strand.

03 Nov 2026 11:52:31
Agree to a degree Aus, but Larsen isn't a terrible player. The point was the scouting department liked the player but rightly put a price tag on him and if went beyond that it was too much.

Had we got him for £25m in Jan that would have looked good. Palace paid an initial £43m +5m in add ons. They thought they were losing Mateta to Milan, did lose Guehi to city and their form was in freefall, at one point getting sucked into relegation fight after they lost to us 4-1 was a very real possibility.

They got themselves in a position where they decided they couldn't afford not to get him so effectively let Wolves name their price.

So they did Larsen at £43m and Johnson at £35m. So call it £80m and four goals, paying £20m per goal. They've then flipped Johnson for Mcneil at a book value of £22m for each i think. So in six months they accepted a loss of £13m just to get rid of Johnson.

There's more than one way to get things right and wrong ofc, and Larsen and McNeil could yet come good. But on current basis, the panic buying last Jan for Palace has set them back and if they didn't end up in relegation trouble last term they might well do this.

03 Nov 2026 12:17:17
Rumour now linking us with Balogun, but as he's valued at circa £50M it'd have to be a loan - other clubs also interested.
In July we were also linked with Tresoldi at Bruges who could've been available then for £20M, but has since shot up in value with some of the big names linked, so prob out of our price bracket now.

02 Nov 2026 10:11:27
I think we need to spend in Jan
The midfield looks stale
We need to a little bit more energy and competition
For me keeping James and Aaronson and binning Gnonto was a mistake

One centre mid and a forward for me is badly needed.

02 Nov 2026 11:27:17
Total agree Devon, but the need for a better back up than Nmecha and a decent AM has been apparent since the end of last season if not earlier. We brought in two wide players in the Summer who on the face of it are or could be good players but don't particularly fit in to our current system.

They weren't the big need-a striker and AM were and still are.

02 Nov 2026 12:05:21
Farke lost trust in Gnonto. And he was underwhelming last season. He's done very little in italy too. Gnonto wouldn't have solved our problems this yr.

02 Nov 2026 13:48:58

Problem is. Owners and Farke chose to spend big and well ish on defense.

Now we can’t score. On them.

But Farke ain’t gonna change this.

As dun said and all the others. No threat from mid or attack. Ifs and buts and but last season and gunners did this 40 yrs ago mean jack s***. It’s a result game. Tick tock.

01 Nov 2026 07:50:50
So after the shadows of darkness where do we see us going.
Can Farkey turn this around again
Who should we buy in January if we have the funds.

01 Nov 2026 12:33:32
Not sure Whitey.I would like to know if 49ers and Farke have really signed and agreed a new 2 year extension for Farke.

As 49ers should wait to see how next matches pan out.

01 Nov 2026 12:58:19
Maybe its the uncertainty of that situation that's affecting performances. Farke will have less authority if some of the squad think he's on his way out.

I called for Farke to get sacked a year ago in the midst of that six defeats in seven run. This is no where near as bad as that and he proved that he could turn that around. I'm still a ways away from turning against him now.

01 Nov 2026 08:11:50
Good post whiteman. I don't think he can. The team have to rely on dcl pretty much to score and he seems to like laying on the pitch a lot.
How did whitemans post get on the rumour page. That AI guy needs training.

31 Oct 2026 18:13:08
How have we ended up with Dan James and Aaronson still at the club and Gnonto out on loan ? Ludicrous decision making.

31 Oct 2026 18:24:19
Sent same sentiments text earlier,,didn't make the grade 😂 how those lads earn the crust they do is mindboggling.

01 Nov 2026 03:23:24
Absolutely Devon. Mind boggling decision.

01 Nov 2026 12:38:06
Gnonto is generally busy and lively on pitch.but facts remain that last seez he failed to score or assist in Leeds United's EPL matches.

He hasnt scored or assisted in Italy this seez either.

So. I think you may be overating Gnonto fellas.even BA had 9 EPL goal contributions last seez.

01 Nov 2026 13:02:08
Last season Baz. Back in the real world mate.

01 Nov 2026 13:05:43
Baz we can finally agree on something recently haha. I don't think that Gnonto would be solving the issues we have right now at all.

FWIW Darlow has played once and was culpable for one of the goals in the Cup, Struijk got sent off, unluckily so and it was rescinded,and he's also spent half the campaign so far injured. Meslier in goal for Arsenal as they got knocked out by L2 even if the goal wasn't an error and all the penalties well struck. Perri hasn't played well, nor does it seem has Piroe. In fact West Ham in general have played so poorly that they might not get promoted to trigger the piroe clause. Ramazani has had a fair start in a bad Burnley team.

Its not been a good start for many of the sales and loanees and some of them might well be back. But there's little doubt that we absolutely made the right call in moving them on.

30 Oct 2026 09:47:22
I'm finding the reports this morning that Man United are poised to snap up Calvert Lewin in January completely ridiculous.
Yeah we'll sell him to them and make a nice profit and have no adapted striker to slot into his place.


Meanwhile we are struggling in the relegation zone.
I'm not saying that the club "might" cash in on him in the summer, but in January is just laughable.

30 Oct 2026 10:07:35
I actually don't think it's laughable. I think every player has a price. Ofc for him to go there it would be astronomical for:

DcL recent form and durability improvement.
It being January
It being Manchester united as a rival
It being Manchester united in desperate need

If I were our recruitment team (they'll have been doing this anyway) I'd be lining up contingencies to replace DCL. He has 18 months left on his deal. We've had his fittest season and a half in nearly a decade it feels like. It still feels like we hit a jackpot on that and it won't last.

Now I'm not about to say take a cut price £40m for him no. They'll moan and complain about £90m but that is what id start at with all the circumstances. And if we're not with a good points total by then, it won't matter we won't sell. They should baulk at £90m and move on. If we're in a good place £90m rebuilds the forward line.

30 Oct 2026 13:08:52
I think it's absolutely wrong to even think of quoting a price, even one as high as £90M. We all know that MU could easily afford that much and would quite likely agree to pay even that high a price to solve their temporary problem. Our response should be that he's not for sale, so talking values is pointless, and please just b####r off.


In any case DCL himself would most probably reject the idea of moving from a happy squad to a rabble where he knows he'd only be seen as a stopgap until Sesko is fit again or another high price star could be found.

30 Oct 2026 13:18:41
7th and "Struggling in the relegation zone" OP, really!

30 Oct 2026 14:09:53
#clickbait.

30 Oct 2026 16:55:59
Mebbe a bit more than clickbait Baz, seems to me like someone over there starting a rumour to guage the reaction, best to ignore it.

31 Oct 2026 08:51:18
I'd sell him for 45 We gonna spend about 30-50 on striker and am in Jan anyway. That 35 would give us more dosh to offer. That's 45 clear profit. It's not personal. Just business. Logic.

26 Oct 2026 16:15:41
I remember when George Graham took the managers role and stating you should build from the back and I hope that's what we're doing. We obviously concentrated on goalie and centre backs, and I don't think we have any complaints about what we have. The proof of the pudding is if we then recruit playmaking midfielders and goal scorers. We shall see 🤔.

26 Oct 2026 17:50:10
Yep that 96/97 first seez of Georgie playing uber defensive included a mid seez run of an AMAZING 13 clean sheets in 16 matches

The next seez the Leeds United recruitment did very well to scout a young very talented Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink for a mere £2 million and playmaker Bruno Ribeiro for far less and scored loads of goals with a very young Harry Kewell and Rod Wallace too.

I was hoping the Leeds recruitment could have scouted a young promising striker at a reasonable price last summer.

27 Oct 2026 09:17:54
I think most fans can see that this is exactly what we are doing, and have the patience and foresight to wait and see what the next couple of seasons bring, within tight financial constraints. I'm pretty confident that this plan will see us retain our PL status, and see those investments in attacking, forward thinking players come to fruition.

27 Oct 2026 23:22:49
At least we 'concentrated' on goalkeeper AND defence. And not even to the detriment of wing positions, even if Wilson and Bahoya have not come good (yet) . Unlike another club who focuses on certain positions practically to the exclusion of almost every other position.